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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1952)
Canyon Avenue Parade By DON PETERSON Welcome visitors! Saturday the Mill City Chamber of Commerce will take on the job of helping to entertain the many visitors who will come to look at the Detroit dam during the open house festivities. The Corps of Engineers and CBI per sonnel will be on hand to conduct the visitors through the mammoth block of concrete known as Detroit dam. Coffee and donuts Kill be on the counter for all comers. * * « J. C. ‘Doc’ Kimmel this week started construction on a new home for his drug business on the lot across from Jenkins hardware. He plans on a one-story building 30x68 made of light blocks. Plans call for the building ready for occupancy about the first of December. * • * The Parent-Teachers association is looking for competent help to conduct a kindergarten this year. If you know of someone or if you are inter ested you are urged to call Mrs. Roger Nelson at 1957. * * * At the invitation of the Oregon Journal I was one of the Oregon pub lishers who was in Portland to hear and meet Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson last Monday at the Benson hotel luncheon. I am glad I was able to be present and hear him deliver his address. Governor Stevenson demon strated a remarkable ability to hold his audience’s attention and get his point over. I think many of the edi tors present began to realize in some small measure how true the criticism levelled at the press was. The Oregon press is no different than any other gro^p of newspaper men throughout the country. The editors of one state are pretty much like the editors of another state. I think most of the editors of the state were present and I hope many of them will have the conscience to realize the truth of the criticism the governor gave them when he pointed out the dangers of a 1-party press in a 2-party country or state when he said, “A free society means a society based on free competition and there is no t.ioi J irwportant competition than competition in ideas, competition in opinion. This form of competition is essential to the preservation of a free press. Indeed, I think the press should set an example to the nation in opposition to uniformity.” I have published his entire speech elsewhere in this issue, it would be worth a little time to ponder some of the thoughts therein expressed and we might then ask the question of why so many newspapers in Oregon and all the other states of the nation are so quickly found on the side of money interests rather than the side of the little people of their communities. Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that the newspapers find it most prof itable to be Republican in its editorials along with the rest of “main street” in every town and city in the country. Better Rural Library Facilities Needed T he MILL CITY s ENTERPRISE * ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY — GATEWAY TO THE HEART OF NATURE’S EMPIRE Vol. VIII—No. 37 MILL CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1952 $2.50 a Year, JQf a Copy Open House Saturday At Detroit Dam AU Oregon, especially res idents of the central Will amette valley, and the San tiam canyon, will be given an opportunity to inspect Detroit ’dam on the North Santiam river on Saturday, Sept. 13, when the Corps of Engineers throws the nearly completed project open to the public. Increased Truck Bloodmobile Visit Taxes Saves To Gates Sept. 19 Operating Costs The Bloodmobile visits Gates, Fri- | day, Sept. 19, 2 to 6 n.m. standard i time, at Gates high school gym, ac- I ’ording to Mrs. Ed Chance, chairman Increased taxes which commercial for the North Santiam Canyon area, | Lyons to Idanha. Some 150 pints for truckers are asked to pay under the the blood bank are sought on this trip 1951 legislature's bill which the truck I to the canyon. This same blood bank ers have referred are “an investment will serve the new Santiam Memorial in the roads which they use for profit” I hospital now being erected. according to Charles A. Sprague, Not only is blood being solicited by former governor, who heads the Goou j the Bloodmobile but also those re- Roads Alliance which is fighting the I freshing things, coffee and donuts, truckers. In the debate before the states Mrs. Chance. Portland City club, the following ex Mrs. Bernice Gordon is chairman of ample was cited: ! the reception committee for the blood “On a 72,000 pound gasoline truck ‘ donors. Mrs. Bertha Baltimore is do- making the round trip, Portland to l nating her time to the cause as typist. Prineville, the increase in rates was 1 Mrs. Amos Roten, Mrs. Louise Arm- 15*i mills (a cent and a half) per I strong, Pat and Bob Wingo will serve mile. On the 296 miles round trip on the canyon’s nursing staff. Dis this amounts to $4.59 per trip. pensing the donuts and coffee to North “The Warm Springs route saves 82 Santiam blood donors will be Mrs. miles per round trip compared with Wm. Tickle. The Red Cross acts as a collection the old Wapinitia. Figuring 5 miles to a gallon of gas, the saving in gas agency for blood. It does not ad consumption alone would pay the $4.59 minister transfusions. It distributes additional tax—not counting the sav ings in time, wages wear and teat on trucks which would be pure gravy.” The referendum on the 1951 tax bill has saved the truckers more than $2.- 000,000, and cost the state, its cities and its counties a corresponding loss in highway funds. Speaking for the truckers, former Utilities Commis sioner George Flagg declared that savings due to new and improved roau construction are passed on to the public in lower freight rates. He was asked if any part of the $2,000.- 000 has been passed on in lower rates. He said that a large part had been absorbed in a million dollar wage in crease to truck employees. It was then pointed out that truck freight rates have been increased ap proximately 25% in the last year and that one of the major trucking com panies. Consolidated Freight ways, has just announced an increase of its quarterly dividend from 25c to 30e a share. “Linn county schools need a county library,” says Mrs. Cyrus McCormick, chairman of the county rural school board, who has long been an advocate of better library facilities for our rural residents. The article by Mrs. McCormick which follows was written at the re quest of the county committee which has presented a series in the interest of undertsanding the county library, and is particularly timely coming at the beginning of a new school year: “School days are here again, and all over the county little six-year-olds are leaving home on one of life’s great adventures: learning to read -an open door to the wisdom of the past and the understanding of the present. "What will they find to help them Much when they arrive at school? better equipment, better trained teach ers, nicer buildings, more attractive textbooks, more comfortable seats, better lighting than ever before: and certainly more companions — maybe even over-crowding and a teacher with too little time. "With so much, why a library? Don’t the children have books enough? Any teacher will tell you that if a child learns to read and like it, he has gone a great way on his educational jour ney. If for any reason he does not leam to read well in the first few grades, he will be limited for the rest of his school life and often because of failures in lessons and grades be comes a PROBLEM child. “There is no hundred per cent sure A SON—To Mr. and Mrs. Clyde fire way of teaching read ng to a group of children with varied inter- Schroeder, Gates. Sept. 9, at Salem Memorial hospital. (Continued on Page 7) Just Arrived... Col. Thomas H. Lipscomb, Portland district engineer, said open house would be in order from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and that 25 Corps of Engineers employees and 15 Consolidated Build ers, Inc., officials would be on hand to conduct visitors on a tour of the concrete dam and the powerhouse at its base, about 10 miles east of Mill City. Tours will be under the supervision of Harry W. Rutherford, acting resi- I dent engineer, and S. R. Overholser, former resident engineer and now res- ■ ident engineer at Lookout Point dam. The Mill City chawiber of commerce 1 will serve coffee and donuts in the powerhouse at the conclusion of tours. Pouring of concrete for the dam is ' virtually completed although the dam and reservoir will not be completed until sometime next year. First power from the $70,000,000 unit in the Corps of Engineers’ Willamette Valley ! project is anticipated early in 1953. It will be the first dam in the Will amette A’alley project to produce pow- ' er, approximately 100,000 kiloWatts, since Fem Ridge, Cottage Grove, and | Dorena dams are for flood control al most exclusively. Currently under construction also (Photo courtesy The Oregonian, Portland) and about three miles downstream from Detroit dam is Big Cliff re-reg- ulating reservoir. Part of the Detroit project, it also will produce power, approximately 18,000 kilowatts, and will regulate the stream discharges Joe Podrabsky's Jersey cow has of Detroit dam. Miss Daisy Hendricson entered Sa The Detroit project is a unit in the lem Memorail hospital Saturday after stirred Mill City citizens. She did it noon for x-rays and observation. She this way. Some 100 days before the plan for development of the water re underwent surgery Wednesday morn date of the birth of her first off-spring sources of the Willamette Basin in the ing of this week. Miss Hendricson is she began giving edible milk. This interest of flood control, power de proprietor of Hendricsons’ dry goods two-year old cow calved for the first velopment, irrigation, navigation, pol time Monday, this week. She has lution abatement and other multiple store in Mill City. Recently Miss Hendricson under been giving an average of three gal uses. went examination and x-raying. A lons of milk per day for the last 100 turn for the worse prompted Wednes- days, according to Podrabsky. rays surgery. Standing by are Mr. Podrabsky's neighbors discounted and Mrs. Ellis Hendricson of San his story of his heifer giving milk, Leandro, Calif. Mrs. John Swan is before she calved, by saying that she in charge of the Mill City dry goods must have lost her calf and he had store during the illness of Miss Hend no knowledge of it. The arrival of a ricson. very-much-alive heifer calf proves Voters must be registered for the Miss Hendricson’s many friends are Podrabsky was right. Agriculture of- fall election by October 4th according wishing her speedy recovery. ; ficials of Oregon State college at Cor to H. C. Mattson. Marion county clerk. vallis were also "Doubting Thomases”. Voters may register at The Enterprise College officials stated that they office, Chuck’s Shoe Shop or with whole blood or plasma to military and civilian hospitals. In military hospi had heard of young heifers giving milk Mrs. C. M. Cline in Mill City and Dick tals the blood is given to patients only before calving, but not in the quantity Parker in Gates. by military medical personnel with and for the length of time Podrabsky’s Registration for the fall election Podrabsky believes that will close on the 4th of October. This out charge. In civilian hospitals cow did. charges may be made by hospital of | something of a record has been set is the last date which a registrar will ficials for professional services, but i by his Jersey cow of registered an- be able to register anyone that desires I cestry. not for blood. to vote in the fall election. It is not necessary for one to re register unless they have failed to vote within the two-year period. In other words if one voted ir. either the primary or general election in 1950 their card is still good. Also if one was registered for the primary elec tion of this year he is still registered. Daisy Hendricson Taken To Hospital M il City Cow Makes Startling Record Photos show two views within the new Detroit dam to be open to public inspection this Saturday. \t left two huge hydraulic cylinder- stand astride the horizontal passageway. Either may be used to open or clone the regulating valves controlling the flow of water through the dam. At right is «boon stairway that runs from the top to bottom of the dam. extends as a passageway across the bottom, and then returns to the top on the opposite side. Later an elevator will be installed for the convenience of visitors and workmen. < Photos courtesy Capital Journal and Robert Veness) Registration Closes Oct. 4 Detroit Clubs Plan Community Center By MRS. 8. T. MOORE Detroit—The Detroit Women’s Civic club vote<> to join with the Canyon ■ Community club is purchasing and moving to a donated lot the former North Santiam Tavern building with plans for developing it for a commu nity center. The decision was reached at a special meeting called Monday night at the home of Mrs. Otis White, club president. Action upon the plan hinges on the ■iecision of the Community club which meets this week. A committee acting for the Civic i club, including Mrs. Earl layman, Mrs. Ear) Parker, Raympnd Sophy and Harry Rutherford was appointed at (Continued on Page M)